NEW DELHI: Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting feels that Pakistan cannot win the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup later this 12 months if their captain Babar Azam would not have an amazing match with the bat.
Pakistan’s Waqar Younis lately mentioned his former workforce had a superb opportunity of claiming a second T20 World Cup title in Australia, however Ponting is not so certain.
Whereas the two-time World Cup-winning captain acknowledges the category of star pacer Shaheen Afridi and the guile of Mohammad Rizwan on the prime of the order, he mentioned their batting line-up is just too reliant on captain and No 1 ranked batter Babar.
“If Babar would not have an amazing match, I do not suppose they will win,” Ponting mentioned within the newest episode of The ICC Evaluate.
“I noticed him up shut and private a few years in the past out right here in a Check collection towards Australia and I mentioned it then, I believed the sky was the restrict for this man so far as Check match batting (was involved) and, if something, he is most likely received higher and higher within the final couple of years.
Their openers are crucial and their new-ball bowlers are crucial, however that position of the spin bowler in Australia is perhaps just a little bit tougher with wickets that most likely will not give them help,” he added.
Notably, it was Ponting’s former aspect Australia, who had knocked out Pakistan from the final version of the T20 World Cup in UAE after beating them within the semifinal.
Pakistan’s Waqar Younis lately mentioned his former workforce had a superb opportunity of claiming a second T20 World Cup title in Australia, however Ponting is not so certain.
Whereas the two-time World Cup-winning captain acknowledges the category of star pacer Shaheen Afridi and the guile of Mohammad Rizwan on the prime of the order, he mentioned their batting line-up is just too reliant on captain and No 1 ranked batter Babar.
“If Babar would not have an amazing match, I do not suppose they will win,” Ponting mentioned within the newest episode of The ICC Evaluate.
“I noticed him up shut and private a few years in the past out right here in a Check collection towards Australia and I mentioned it then, I believed the sky was the restrict for this man so far as Check match batting (was involved) and, if something, he is most likely received higher and higher within the final couple of years.
Their openers are crucial and their new-ball bowlers are crucial, however that position of the spin bowler in Australia is perhaps just a little bit tougher with wickets that most likely will not give them help,” he added.
Notably, it was Ponting’s former aspect Australia, who had knocked out Pakistan from the final version of the T20 World Cup in UAE after beating them within the semifinal.